[AccessD] Almost Friday Humor

Susan Harkins ssharkins at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 07:35:35 CDT 2008


I'm the same way. For a long time, you could purchase the manual for a 
reasonable shipping fee, but I haven't even seen that offer in a while.

Susan H.


>
> Personally I liked it when you used to get a great fat box that included a 
> manual the size of a phone book when you purchased your software.  I can 
> see lots of good reasons why they don't do this anymore, but even so, I 
> used to like reading those manuals in paper form.  I am not a big fan of 
> 'on screen' or PDF help - even though it makes total economic and 
> environmental sense not to provide the manuals anymore.
>
> oh well...
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William
> Hindman
> Sent: Sunday, 3 August 2008 8:46 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor
>
>
> ...its funny but its not funny at the same time ...I still run a copy of 
> the
> A97 help files simply because they are better than anything since ...MUCH
> better ...every once in a while you hear the MS Access team ask what we 
> want
> to see in the next revision ...there is an entire site dedicated to a list
> of long standing bugs in Access, the help file prominent among them ...but
> what did we get in A2k7?
>
> ...the RIBBON from hell! ...and the bugs and no-help files are still with 
> us
> :(
>
> William
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Dan Waters" <dwaters at usinternet.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 6:13 PM
> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor
>
>> Aaaaargh!  That made me laugh too!
>>
>> Thanks William :-)
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William 
>> Hindman
>> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:56 AM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor
>>
>> ...hey! ...its as good or better than 70% of the rest of what's in the
>> "help" files ...imnsho, of course :)
>> William
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:33 AM
>> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
>> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor
>>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> Okay, I get it.  But, Microsoft has been putting those ads for 2007 in
>>> the Help items for long enough that I expected it and didn't get the
>>> joke.  It's annoying and disappointing that they do that, but it isn't
>>> new to me.
>>>
>>> Yours is a perfect question:  what are they doing putting advertising
>>> into the Help file?  I would also like them to stop.
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> Dan Waters wrote:
>>>> You're not missing anything!
>>>>
>>>> What is Microsoft doing putting advertising into the Help file?  That's
>>>> over
>>>> the top, even for them!
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris
>>>> Fields
>>>> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:20 AM
>>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor
>>>>
>>>> Okay, maybe I'm just being dense here, but all the See Also offers is
>>>> the choice to buy Microsoft Office 2007 or a free trial of the Office
>>>> 2007 system.  What am I missing?
>>>> Tina
>>>>
>>>> Dan Waters wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In Access Help, look for 'Configuring the Microsoft Jet Database 
>>>>> Engine
>>>>>
>>>> for
>>>>
>>>>> ODBC Access'.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the bottom click on See Also.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know I just got done saying this one's better, but do you have to 
>>>>> put
>>>>>
>>>> this
>>>>
>>>>> in Help?
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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